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Phew, it’s been a stressful night again, but despite the defaults I’m very happy everyone enjoyed it. A 2v2 CTF tourney is perhaps a bit unusual, but that can only be a good thing in my opinion. It proves once again that our nearly 10 year old game is still capable of bringing people together in very different ways, and I’m glad you had fun tonight!

Before I post the results, I want to thank everyone who invested time and effort in organising and finishing the tourney through the good and bad games. Especially Mandy from xs4all who provided 3 nicely configured servers, Ebbel for helping with the configuration files. The Prost and CoD clan for the server and their support. _9mmNL_ for setting up a server just for the tourney. Angst for A3’s, despite his PC problems and Evoldore for the krautz one. Take one of you away and we’d have had a terrible mess

So, for the results itself, I think the groups were very close in general, with one or two exceptions perhaps. Congratulations to Mdn and Xkr for their flawless campaign to the top of Group 1, and to Tores for helping me reach the first spot in Group 2

With 16 teams and 8 servers, it’s going to be a crowded tourney, that’s for sure! I’m glad there is such an overwhelming interest though

You can find this Sunday’s schedule here.
Try to be online in #prost-tourney around 19:00 cest (Central European Summer Time).

As you can see, the teams have been divided amongst 4 groups. The first 3 rounds will decide the ranking within your group. A victory is 2 points, a draw is 1 and a loss is 0 of course. After that, we’ll have another two rounds of “Cross Games”, that is, you play against two teams ranked similarly in the other group from your “division”. The final ranking will be based on those crossgroups combined with how much points you scored in total. The timelimit is 15 everywhere.

Also, make sure you downloaded the eg_ctf1 map in your baseq3 directory and that its name ends on .pk3 (so not .zip or something, and you should not unzip anything)

To make everything go smoothly, I want to ask that every team assigns a scoreman. After a game, the scoreman from the winning team should report the scores in an IRC query to chatfragger (so I don’t have 32 queries open). If the game is a tie, well, then both teams should report it. I can live with that

We’re currently finishing the server config. Server passwords will be announced one of these days.

It’s that time of the year again. You know, that Sunday when the bells are ringing joyfully, louder than usual – probably waking you up way too early. The time of the year when you get fed up eating those horrible chocolate eggs thrown at you by some evil fluffyhead. Well folks, it’s time we strike back and give it a proper punishment!

Unfortunately, I was told that easter bunnies have gone near extinct so I’m afraid you’ll just have to smack eachother for now. Don’t worry though, it’s gonna be fun!

Both CoD and Prost are celebrating their birthday (2 and 3 years) around this period (11/03 and 26/04) so join the party!